South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published by World Watch Monitor It’s been called the “greatest crisis on the African continent“. The UN’s World Food Programme in mid-June warned that hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds to feed them. It needs $172-million (R2.3-billion) to […]
Religious communities should take up an invitation by a parliamentary committee to comment on a report calling for regulation of religion in South Africa, says Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA) in an urgent update emailed to its constituents today. If religious leaders do not respond promptly to the CRL […]
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Originally published in Urban Christian News A robot ‘preacher’ that beams lights from its hands and can give automated blessings to the faithful has been launched in the town that gave fame to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Five hundred years after Luther published the Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg, […]
Plucky Port Elizabeth primary school teacher Richard Geyer, 27, is halfway into an epic run of 1 000km in 10 days to raise funds for cancer despite a blister on his little toe that flared up on the first day and which has since gone septic. Grit obviously runs in […]
The South African Law Reform Commission’s (SALRC) report recommending that adult prostitution remainS criminalised is great news but the battle to protect women from sexual exploitation now shifts to a different arena, said family policy activist Errol Naidoo He commended the SALRC for taking into account thousands of submissions in […]
Wayne Bolton will be jumping on his bicycle again soon to embark on another multi-thousand kilometre ride to save our wildlife and inspire others to make a difference where God has placed them. In 2015/2016 he completed a gruelling 6 000km ride over 2½ months, taking in all 19 national […]
Gateway News chairman Afrika Mhlophe and editor Andre Viljoen will be running in the Comrades Marathon from Durban to Pietermaritzburg on Sunday June 4. That’s just over two weeks away. We are excited about this running challenge and our dream is to use the occasion to raise funds for LIV […]
It began as a vision of a village on hill with a cross at the centre…it became LIV Village, an inspiring example of how the church, government and business can work fruitfully together when Jesus is at the centre. LIV Village near Durban is raising children who came out of […]
The idea and every detail of a Christian board game that was launched in South Africa in March was downloaded to him by God, said the game creator Garth Wilson, 38 of Randburg, Johannesburg. He said the game, which he was told “under the anointing” to call It is Written, was given […]